I'm more of a Tizer than these strange meat based drinks

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Only Bovril, fits into that category, I believe.  Marmite is yeast.  Eww.

As for Tizer...  They changed the recipe twice since I was a kid.  Nothing like it used to be now.  :( 

oddly enough I was just drinking a can and thinking the same thing.

Being from Scotland... and a genuine Scotch person, I only drink pureed Haggis... and a dram or two of whisky... but only if its being given away for free... I wouldn't pay for the stuff.

I'm Dave from the North East of England but NOT a geordie, lol been down to London a couple of times in what seems like another lifetime on very quick visits and people down there thought I was a geordie despite never been born there or have lived up that way.

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I'm Jan. Born 10 miles south of Newcastle. Lived there for the first twenty something years of my life before moving south. Living around London now but even though I've lived in the south longer my heart still in the north. :lol:

Me from Birtley!

Oy! Brit Isles Ancestory count? :-) Go back several generations and you'd find my ancestors in England, Scotland, and Ireland.

Kendra- I grew up (assuming I did) in Calaveras County (Sierra Nevada)-which area do you live in?

Quote - Kendra, California born and bred (with a short stint in Oregon where I met my husband).  Currently in the Sierra Nevada's.  :)

Lindans aka Linda from South Wales but travelled a lot LOL!! been here a good few years now. My ex husband was in the army a Geordie regiment LOL so also picked up the slang LOL!! I love the expression "Ah Diven't Kna" ?????  ( I don't Know)

Regards to all Linda

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Only Bovril, fits into that category, I believe.  Marmite is yeast.  Eww.

As for Tizer...  They changed the recipe twice since I was a kid.  Nothing like it used to be now.  :( 

Same with Irn Bru... as I understand it, it's no longer made from girders (iron), but instead, now, the recycled aluminium from old Irn Bru cans... LOL :lol:

...shame. This is one of my favourite Irn Bru ads to date:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=GB&v=ibuLgsVcQUY

...with these two a close second and third:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_J0tr5PPAoU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfiqrkV_ZqI

Conforming to the British Stereotype, my favourite drink is tea.  And, given my geographical location, it has to be Yorkshire Tea.  :)

Quote - I don't mind marmite - I can take it or leave it really (odd I know)

It isn't odd at all. That whole "love it or hate it" thing is an advertising slogan, and last time I checked, advertising slogans were about as far from the truth as it's possible to get without being sued. :) 

Don't think they caught this guy though...?

Phil

Born Lichfield, UK

Moved to USA in 94. Now living in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

Quote - Conforming to the British Stereotype, my favourite drink is tea.  And, given my geographical location, it has to be Yorkshire Tea.  :)

 I have to have Yorkshire gold tea, can't do anything other tea. Have to have the tea loaf cake with it YUM! :)

Quote - Being from Scotland... and a genuine Scotch person, I only drink pureed Haggis... and a dram or two of whisky... but only if its being given away for free... I wouldn't pay for the stuff.

Hey, Cool! My webcomic is being read internationally then!

Hmm, no sign of Richard Haseltine? I know he's a Brit!

Quote - Phil

Born Lichfield, UK

Moved to USA in 94. Now living in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.

I have family in Lichfield.  None, as far as I know, in Illinois though. 

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Hey, Cool! My webcomic is being read internationally then!

Hmm, no sign of Richard Haseltine? I know he's a Brit!

Yes indeed

How're the next issues coming along by the way?

Quote - Dan, Nottingham UK. I'll take marmite over mustard any day, but bovril is better.

Yeah, me too. Don't drink the stuff though, I spread it very thickly on cheddar biccys. Mmmmmm :)

Drink of choice is Hobsons Mild. Lovely.

Gin and tonic, ice and a slice and none of your slimline nonsense, please! Beautiful on a warm summer's evening - if we ever get one again!

PG tips anytime white and 2 please :)

Tetley, black & 2 :P

Not a brit, I'm a Scot through and through.

I'm located about 30 miles west of where Monkeycloud is, which puts me almost half way between Glasgow & Edinburgh.

Quote - Hey, Cool! My webcomic is being read internationally then!Hmm, no sign of Richard Haseltine? I know he's a Brit!

Yes indeed

How're the next issues coming along by the way?

Well, CricketMcGuire #2 is done actually. I just trying to wrap up Android #23.

Maybe you Brits could tell me something if it won't be hijacking the thread-- Why is it pronounced "Tims" but spelled "Thames"?

Well, being Scottish, I didn't know this either, but Wikipedia says the following:

"The river's name has always been pronounced with a simple t /t/; the Middle English spelling was typically Temese and Celtic Tamesis. The thspelling lends an air of Greek to the name and was added during the Renaissance, possibly to reflect or support a claim that the name was derived fromRiver Thyamis in the Epirus region of Greece, whence early Celtic tribes were erroneously thought to have migrated"

Sounds plausible to me

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Yes indeed

How're the next issues coming along by the way?

Well, CricketMcGuire #2 is done actually. I just trying to wrap up Android #23.

Maybe you Brits could tell me something if it won't be hijacking the thread-- Why is it pronounced "Tims" but spelled "Thames"?

It ain't pronounced "Tims", it's "Tems".  :P  

I pronounce it more like "taembz"... I think

Yeah but you lot talk funny anyhow. ;)

Yup... we all shound like either Sean Connery or Billy Connolly. I shound more like the former myshelf

I always attributed all of our funny pronunciations, such as Thames, to the Norman conquest and the French. However, like many English girls, I have a shocking weakness for French accents, and am powerless before those who wield one. 

Interesting to hear that the spelling may well be the result of Greek influences. I have a shocking weakness for Greek food and anyone who can cook it.

Well, I have a shocking French accent and my Greek cooking is a bit of a shock, if that's any help.  :)

Quote - I always attributed all of our funny pronunciations, such as Thames, to the Norman conquest and the French. However, like many English girls, I have a shocking weakness for French accents, and am powerless before those who wield one.

My actual surname is a case in point of that... it's an anglicised form of a fairly uncommon Norman name... although there is a town near Warrington that bears my surname.

Although I was born in Scotland... I have to come clean, I do have at least a quarter or so of English blood in my veins

...and quite a lot of the rest is probably a mixture of Irish and Dutch for that matter... as it turns out.

Well... of course... on account of my surname... I must have some of zee French DNA too...

in re: epirus, the ancestors of the anglo-saxons (e.g. thor of thrace) were the legendary progenitors of the hellenes, having gone south during the last ice age.  when it warmed up, they went back to lower saxony and nordic regions, whence they proceeded to england.  but it was long ago and nobody remembers any more.  AFAIK the only ones who weren't conquered nor absorbed by them were the native picts.

You probably know Neil and I have French ancestry.  Dunno about him but you can add German, Danish, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and African to mine.  Probably several others too.

Speaking of Neil, ain't seen him in this thread yet.  Where him go? 

Quote - You probably know Neil and I have French ancestry.  Dunno about him but you can add German, Danish, Scottish, Irish, Welsh and African to mine.  Probably several others too.

Speaking of Neil, ain't seen him in this thread yet.  Where him go? 

Dunno... but I've been working on a wee render with his chess clock in it last couple of nights... alongside building the new Tardis and trying to recreate something that might pass for vaguely resembling part of the Louvre, in 18th Century Paris... using Buckingham Palace.

Quote - ... I have a shocking weakness for French accents ... I have a shocking weakness for Greek food and anyone who can cook it.

Tu veux me faire cuire un moussaka pour toi, mademoiselle? :D

My ancestry is nice and simple. Half Welsh and half Danish. Although family legend on the Welsh side says two brothers came from Scotland many generations back (having been almost caught once too often sheep rustling), so fled to Wales where there were plenty of sheep-rustling opportunities - and together they both married the same woman. So there's some Scottish in there somewhere.

The Danish side is pure Viking apparently ;)

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Tu veux me faire cuire un moussaka pour toi, mademoiselle? :D

Votre langue est très informel, non? Avez-vous une certaine familiarité précédente?

(pronounced badly, in a heavy Scots accent)

Quote - ...and together they both married the same woman. So there's some Scottish in there somewhere.

ROFLMAO :lol:

Quote - Votre langue est très informel, non? Avez-vous une certaine familiarité précédente?

Werl, it's the accent, innit? sniff Nobody said nuffink about gettin' the words right, y'know?

My French may be questionable, but I know my accent is good since I have a musical ear. I found it on the floor of a barber's shop in Penge. Bada-boom, and thank you to the highly steamed and pressed Goon Show, best of British if ever there was...

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Tu veux me faire cuire un moussaka pour toi, mademoiselle? :D

Votre langue est très informel, non? Avez-vous une certaine familiarité précédente?

(pronounced badly, in a heavy Scots accent) 

Well, Scotsmen are truly adorable, too! Though I'm not quite sure about the cuisine. However, I must confess: I haven't really experienced any authentic Scottish food personally, except for the whisky, which is exceptional. And is sustaining enough to be considered food.

Quote - Werl, it's the accent, innit? sniff Nobody said nuffink about gettin' the words right, y'know?

Indeed, since I wouldn't recognize a grammar mistake in French if it hit me on the head, it is definitely the accent that counts (Belgian, Québécois, Swiss, Moroccan, Algerian, Tunisian, Haitian... I'm not picky.)

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Werl, it's the accent, innit? sniff Nobody said nuffink about gettin' the words right, y'know?

My French may be questionable, but I know my accent is good since I have a musical ear. I found it on the floor of a barber's shop in Penge. Bada-boom, and thank you to the highly steamed and pressed Goon Show, best of British if ever there was...

The Goon show was slightly before my time (albeit I caught up later). It was the Goodies for me as a kid...

He he... y'know that I cheated there and used Google Translate? :biggrin:

I usually have reasonable comprehension when it comes to Latin-rooted languages... from the little bit of Latin I did at school... but unfortunately I had to drop French after O'Grade. Couldn't elect to do both French and Art at Higher... absurdly.

So my vocab is sadly lacking, past being able to ask the baker for the usual round of breakfast croissants and bread... a daily ritual when we're down in the French med.

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Well, Scotsmen are truly adorable, too! Though I'm not quite sure about the cuisine.

The celebrity chef culture... modernisation of the mid to high end food service industry etc... has helped somewhat on the cuisine front here, I'd say...

...still, overall, outside of the main metropolis', not a patch on the quality to be found, even in some seemingly quite backwater towns, in New Zealand... in my experience...

...but, nonetheless, the lower end, battered haggis supper, with salt and brown chippy sauce on it, is still a regular winner for me

Quote - ...not a patch on the quality to be found, even in some seemingly quite backwater towns, in New Zealand... in my experience...

And mine. Now I understand why you say "Tims" instead of "Tems". You've absorbed some Kiwi. :) (I still find myself saying "yis" when I want to answer in the affirmative, and it's nearly two years since we were in NZ.) 

He he... "Tims" is indeed the Kiwi pronounciation of "Tems".

For the record though, I say it "taembz", or possibly, indeed, "taeembzz"

Ah, you're right, it was EClark1894 who said "Tims". Don't confuse me with the facts. :P

My mother says 'Tims' but she speaks proper RP, like  Her Maj or Julie Andrews.  I'd say 'tems' on account of going to a school that was known as Twickenham Cowsheds.  Though I've noticed that living in the East Midlands for nearly 20 years has softened my vowels - or perhaps it's my age!  

Well I'm a proper Sheffield lad so I sound a bit like Sean Bean. As opposed to Mr Bean.

Yet another Brit here, from the home counties :)